I mean really. Meyer was dismissed because he and the board disagreed on tablets and portables. Bergman quit because he got passed over for the CEO position. That's a whopping two people who have left. Yes they are talented, successful people but so is Rory Read who was just hired. I expect he'll be hiring more talent also.
Perhaps you're right, however if a small bunch of engineers leaves, how would we ever know without pestering John Freuhe about it (along with everything else)?
I'm not sure how much of it is true, but at very least it way clear with bobcat that Amd way aiming to enter a mobile market, and probably had a better architecture than intel for it. I personally think it's really not up to Amd or Intel or even Apple and Amazon on the future of tablets and x86, but rather Microsoft and their windows platform.
What happened wasn't just a disagreement on portables, but a chair who doesn't understand the industry seeing the market favor mobile computing ad their company with no mobile computing products. It was an irrational descision that probably made Amd unstable again.
It's unfortunate because with every major departure over the past few years at Amd, there followed a bleeding of talent at the company. I imagine an environment like this is hard to sustain at very least because of the instability it creates. A very bad Move on the chair's part. at very least they fired a good manager, and at most they may very well have taken from us a very intriguing possible future for chip architecture.
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Beenthere - Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - link
I mean really. Meyer was dismissed because he and the board disagreed on tablets and portables. Bergman quit because he got passed over for the CEO position. That's a whopping two people who have left. Yes they are talented, successful people but so is Rory Read who was just hired. I expect he'll be hiring more talent also.silverblue - Thursday, September 29, 2011 - link
Perhaps you're right, however if a small bunch of engineers leaves, how would we ever know without pestering John Freuhe about it (along with everything else)?Mishera - Sunday, October 2, 2011 - link
I found this interesting article a few days ago:http://semiaccurate.com/2011/06/22/amd-and-arm-joi...
I'm not sure how much of it is true, but at very least it way clear with bobcat that Amd way aiming to enter a mobile market, and probably had a better architecture than intel for it. I personally think it's really not up to Amd or Intel or even Apple and Amazon on the future of tablets and x86, but rather Microsoft and their windows platform.
What happened wasn't just a disagreement on portables, but a chair who doesn't understand the industry seeing the market favor mobile computing ad their company with no mobile computing products. It was an irrational descision that probably made Amd unstable again.
It's unfortunate because with every major departure over the past few years at Amd, there followed a bleeding of talent at the company. I imagine an environment like this is hard to sustain at very least because of the instability it creates. A very bad Move on the chair's part. at very least they fired a good manager, and at most they may very well have taken from us a very intriguing possible future for chip architecture.
zhangqq - Monday, October 31, 2011 - link
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